Is The North Set To Outpace The South?

Northern cities are set to outpace the South in UK house price growth over the next five years, new data reveals. London and the South have traditionally set the pace for the property market, but new data from property investment specialist UOWN points to a change. Analysts predict house prices in Northern […]

Why Newcastle is helping to attract property investors to the North

The ongoing Northern Powerhouse initiative aims to address the north/south economic imbalance and has been a huge success. Although it has focused on Manchester, it has benefitted many of the surrounding areas, including Newcastle, which has become the latest “hidden gem” in the property market and is likely to come […]

Buy-to-let expert shares 5 predictions for UK property in 2018

With 2018 now upon us, anyone thinking about investing in bricks and mortar wants to know what’s going to happen over the next 12 months. Will prices continue to edge up, stabilise or dip down? Where is best to invest? Does buy-to-let still stack up? Jonathan Stephens, Founder and MD […]

The Best UK Cities For First-Time Buyers

Entering into the property market is not an easy thing to achieve. Many changes have been made to help first-time buyers get onto the property ladder, but substantial deposits and expensive mortgages still make it less likely that UK millennials will own their own homes compared with their French, Canadian […]

Scotland and the North Lead UK in Rental Growth

Scotland and the North of England delivered the UK’s highest levels of rental growth in the final stages of 2016, it has emerged. Kuflink, a peer-to-peer lending specialist, examined both rents and house prices for 50 UK locations and found that the upper end of the country was decidedly leading […]